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    Will Major PE Share Sales After Strong Quarter Change Sotera Health's (SHC) Narrative

    Simply Wall St·12/07/2025 09:25:55
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    • Affiliates of Warburg Pincus and GTCR recently completed a large secondary offering of Sotera Health shares, selling tens of millions of shares for more than US$250,000,000 in aggregate, with Sotera Health itself receiving no proceeds but bearing offering-related costs.
    • This transfer of ownership from long‑time private equity backers to public investors comes just after Sotera Health reported stronger‑than‑expected quarterly results and maintained support from covering analysts, sharpening attention on how its shareholder base is evolving.
    • With this sizable secondary sale by legacy shareholders now complete, we’ll examine how it reframes Sotera Health’s investment narrative and future expectations.

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    Sotera Health Investment Narrative Recap

    To own Sotera Health, you need to believe its sterilization and lab testing businesses can grow through tighter regulation and evolving customer needs, while managing litigation, capital intensity and competition. The recent secondary share sale by Warburg Pincus and GTCR looks more like a change in who owns the stock than a change in what drives it, so it does not materially alter the near term growth catalysts or the key regulatory and legal risks.

    The most relevant recent announcement here is Sotera’s stronger than expected Q3 2025 results and reaffirmed full year revenue growth guidance of 4.5% to 6.0%. That performance backdrop helps explain why demand for the offering was sufficient to absorb 30,000,000 shares, and it keeps the focus on whether volumes, capacity projects and regulatory developments can support the earnings improvement that many investors are counting on.

    Yet while the earnings trend looks encouraging, the real risk investors need to understand is how future ethylene oxide rules could...

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    Sotera Health's narrative projects $1.3 billion revenue and $314.2 million earnings by 2028.

    Uncover how Sotera Health's forecasts yield a $18.93 fair value, a 13% upside to its current price.

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    SHC Earnings & Revenue Growth as at Dec 2025
    SHC Earnings & Revenue Growth as at Dec 2025

    Two Sotera fair value estimates from the Simply Wall St Community span roughly US$18.93 to US$33.59, underscoring how far apart individual views can be. Set against that, the ongoing ethylene oxide regulatory and litigation overhang may weigh heavily on how different investors interpret the same operating results and balance sheet.

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